>What is Battlerite? Battlerite is a PvP skillshot-based team arena game, similar to WoW Arena. It is made as the successor to Bloodline Champions, and is currently in Early Access. Release date slated at early 2017.
Why is this game so dead? Like, what's the actual reason? Because it's not f2p yet?
Evan Phillips
Enjoy your meme e-celeb.
Angel Gomez
EU finals starting now. Croak/Jade vs Lucie/Ruh Kaan or bakko.
teldo and velrosk are gods but the lucie ruh kaan destroyed the number one shifu player earlier in the tourney.
Luis Adams
BLC was a failure of a game and stunlock has succeeded in appeasing neither BLCfags who won't shut up that the game is different, nor in grabbing new players with the redesign.
Austin Kelly
actual reasons from most significant to least >No marketing >no twitch or youtuber big name playing it, forcing it(yes this matters largely nowadays, sad but true) >not f2p >requires time investment to git gud
a lot of the same shit that made Bloodline die regardless of the game quality
Adrian Gutierrez
While it's true that the marketing is practically non-existent right now (and probably is a mistake not to go hard with it, even in EA), they did get sodapoppin to start doing sponsored streams.
James Cox
>literally who's stomping the best duo GET IN HERE
Jace Cook
There was some hype at the start/end of the closed beta, problem in my opinion is the 3-4 months of EA after it. Not enough advertisement, I think.
Zachary Russell
ded gaem
Gavin Hall
Match 1 goes to Teldo/verosk after all!
Thomas Moore
RIP the dream.
Carson Gray
Does this mean Ruh Kaan is tier 1 now?
Anthony Scott
Ruh Kaan confirmed for best waifu.
Christian Hughes
it doesn't matter dude. big twitch streamers, lol pros, dota pros, wow pros, hs "pros", even smash bros melee pros have streamed it and got huge numbers. not one of them stuck with the game, and the worst part is that all of them ENJOY the game. none of them had any gripes or complaints and they genuinely had fun, but they can't afford to break away from their main audience for obvious reasons, or they just don't want to stream it.
i'm honestly giving it til next champion before calling it, regardless of ranked MM changes. it's obvious that no matter how many people are bitching about MM being awful and non-fun, that's clearly not the reason aren't playing. they added in unranked 2 patches ago and the average numbers haven't changed. you might want to retort that the team building in unranked is even worse but that shouldn't matter when it's unranked right? which points to there being a problem in the gameplay instead, which is centered around the boring champion kits.
but it's probably fucked anyway, idk. whether the next champion is fun or not, it doesn't make up for all the other ones being lame and similar, and they don't have the time or desire to rework everyone.
Oliver Lee
I hope they add a ton of fake progression and leveling to the game before they release F2P. Then maybe battlerite has hope to attain a larger player base.
Eli Carter
AND THE 200 (TWO HUNDRED) DOLLARS GOES TO TELROSK
Jace Wilson
that bakko was crazy to watch tho
Asher Adams
>eu tourney had 1k viewers we're gonna make it boys
Adam Sanders
Yeah he had good flicks and outplayed the croak many times
Justin Torres
At what point do you guys think ping starts being a problem? Checking to see on which servers I should play.
Cooper Bailey
Does Battlerite have an official league yet? Is that what Battlerekt is or no? I feel like this contributes to the lack of growth in a small way at least stream numbers wise.
Camden Cruz
if you're over 50 it's a slight problem if you're over 80 it's a real problem if you're over 100 why even play
Justin Fisher
the feeling of poloma
Henry Walker
Do you guys like the new hero?
Anthony Bailey
Is there another one?
Juan Edwards
this game is fun
Lucas Allen
People forget about the game because it gets really stale, really fast. Don't hit counters. Use i frames to dodge. Just really boring, similar champion kits.
Of course, the remedy to this is 3v3 with a working MM mode. It won't completely save the game, but if people have a reason to grind (ranked games feel more meaningful) and they play the mode where the champions are more varied with better balance, it will help.
But SLS is pushing 2v2 for some reason, maybe because it's accessible
Colton Johnson
Progression is important too. It takes 60 games to get one gold chest, a silver chest for every day you get on. Assuming you play an hour a day, for a week you get 7 silver chests 350 gold. People go apeshit over cosmetics. Just look at all the opportunists who got 50 razer mounts to sell back to people. Stuff like the razer mounts help the game I think.
If they can do remodels of some of the garbage hero models and then market it as skins, I guarantee you it will help. And once you reach level 20, you get the "master skin" for that champion. That could really help people put in time. That and a working MM system.
Charles Adams
>whoever buys EA gets a free key for a friend
Y/N?
Chase Turner
It could work before right before the game goes f2p, they wouldn't lose sales and it would pique interest
Eli Taylor
pearl is mad at her teammate
Joshua Robinson
is bakko the best bully? I thought it was going to be varesh but I cant land shatters as consistently as I want to
Bentley Hall
>best bully what the fuck that even mean you sperg
Easton Harris
best bully for pushshove meaners into deathkill while they scream for mummers :^)
Hudson Fisher
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Tyler Davis
>even shitposts can't keep the general alive
Mason Cox
people like 2v2 because they feel empowered. You don't have to cooperate as much, you can just outplay the enemy by yourself. Feels like you're in control.
Blake Rogers
I think they should do another CB in december, they have to find a way to make some sort of hype.
Aaron Walker
What's "CB"?
Connor White
Closed beta, don't know why I put CB instead of writing those words.
Ethan Sullivan
>1v2 """clutch""" play >it's against literal retards
Why do people praise this shit? "Oh a 20 health ashka used molten fist and searing flight into me, despite his teammate being over a 100 sirius"
Luis Clark
So is Bakko unga bunga?
Austin Ward
That would be Rook
Caleb Long
pls don't die
I didn't even get to see the meme 2s tournament, was at work all day
Nathan Stewart
Can't you just watch the past broadcast on twitch?
Josiah Moore
clips.twitch.tv
/battlerekt/
BeautifulGerbilTooSpicy
Carter Wilson
It's on right now
Jaxson Harris
>tfw finlev got fucked by a jumong combo again Fuck meme arrow man.
Landon Phillips
Maybe if he played a real mode like 3's then he would be taken seriously
Carter White
He pretty much always talks about how he likes 3s tourneys more. Can people stop saltposting MUH 3s for 80% of the threads?
Jaxson Baker
MUH BLC
Hunter Brooks
Why 9 rounds?
Dominic Ward
why not
Juan Wright
Heroes of the storm has the opposite of all of those, and it's also dead
Jackson Ross
as someone who tried to play HotS a lot, this user is right. Marketing, f2p, and forcing it doesn't make it stick.
If the game is fun and the players have fun doing it, the game will do well. That's the problem though
>garbage MM >garbage ranking system >garbage progression >garbage balance
there
Josiah Anderson
>comparing a mobile game to BR why would you do that
Carson Edwards
>having no idea what is being talked about and still posting why would you do that
Aaron Williams
for better or worse, BR is seen as comparable to HotS, dota, league, HoN
Robert Miller
>not getting the joke get the fuck out of here
Oliver Morgan
It's a lot more alive than BR and will still be there long after its death.
Julian Perry
>admitting a mobile game has more depth than BR why would you do that?
Henry Perry
where did i say that? don't be silly faggot
Nolan Smith
>eldo and velrosk are gods Makes me sick reading shit like this when it fact they are doing nothing but exploit a broken stun into 60% health comb. Its not hard to exploit this sort of synergy especially considering how retarded and dumb the buffs to Croak were.
Caleb Hughes
It gets boring because no variety Matchmaking is cancer At higher tiers you just get stomped by parties so single queuers pretty much die off and the playerbase cannibalizes itself
3 teams registered right now. I know of a bunch of people who are busy friday, so I doubt it will go past 10-15 tops.
Jackson Bailey
why is everyone excited about Battlerekt? There were a lot of tourneys before? Is this newfagging?
Caleb Hall
Shilling.
Jaxson Butler
Nobody talks about other tourneys and battlerekt just happened
Matthew Reyes
>nobody talks because 2s are boring as fuck
Andrew Gray
the 2s final was really really good, im guessing thats why battlerekt is getting more attention.
Isaac Thompson
don't forget to fill out this survey
Noah Jackson
Nobody talked about the 3s tourney that happened a couple days ago either, people only like to complain in this general
Owen Brown
Post your champion ideas.
Illusionist like champion: Can create copies of allies. Ultimate turns your team invisible for a couple of second.
Ex makes the enemy team see you as one of them for a short while, as in if they have a rook, they will see two rook allies instead of one.
Mobity ability just summons a bunch of clones of you that move randomly.
another option is a necromancer so it can revive this ded thread
Parker Peterson
> spamming about 3s and MM remake in surveys I hope that's all not for nothing
Luis Williams
Well at least they realized that the MM leaves something to be desired.
Connor Gutierrez
man, there are no "matchmaking" in the list so no, the didn't
Andrew Gomez
it's not in the list because they already plan on "tweaking" it
Owen Johnson
That's bullshit improvements and you know it
Eli Cooper
the mm is fine there just aren't enough players and people at the top are sitting on their ranking now that everyone else is
the only way they can actually solve this is to cut a ranked queue and focus on one, which will cause some people to drop the game and isn't something they will do
they're going to implement season based mmr and rating decay to try to get the top players to play more, but the real problem is how shallow the game is in 2v2 and that isn't going to be addressed
casuals are going to complain about any system that doesn't constantly tell them that they're amazing, they'll just grade stretch and inflate points and maybe prevent rating loss below a certain rating
all of it is pointless when they won't address the game's real issues, and they don't get that the casuals are mostly only interested in watching the pros play and don't care about actually playing the game much
Samuel Morgan
this is fairly accurate, TrueSkill wouldn't be as terrible as it is now if there were enough people around your rank playing
If you're G13 and so is everyone else in the match, the point gain/loss is fine. it only breaks down when that is rarely the case or if the playerbase psychologically feels like gains are too slow, i.e. winning for an entire day and only gaining 50 rating, or 10% of what you'd need to have it reflect that you achieved something
As it stands it's just terrible because the playerbase can't support trueskill and the gaps between grades are fucking miles apart given what the point rewards are
Jonathan Morales
please don't waste your surveys talking about matchmaking and 3v3 or 2v2 focus or whatever
use it to tell them how bored you are with champion kits. tell them how every character having a counter or consume is hurting the game and ruining the individuality of characters. tell them how the blandness of ability designs means that the outplay potential doesn't exist at higher levels when it should, and that all they have done is lower the skill ceiling by far far too much.
Christopher Jones
people are bargaining for what they can get at this point
lol if you think they'll add a full additional ability and/or rework all the existing abilities this late in development and this close to f2p
Connor Evans
>grade 12 playing against grade 8's and 9's
wow. i thought the game being dead was a meme
Thomas Brooks
if you try 2s or 3s as a full party of g13s you flat out break matchmaking
i haven't seen placement players in a long time, but i have seen G10s pretty regularly after the game says fuck it and gives up
Benjamin Gray
i don't think they will at all, but if a significant amount of people ask for it (and people in the secret club already have before) then they'll have to consider it.
even a slightly reworked champion every patch is worth it in the long run (ashka loses Pure Fire in exchange for Fire Beam back on ex M2, varesh shield moves to R and regains old Waji/Woje spells on space, rook counter replaced with Stone Shield)
you know, changes to 1 or 2 abilities that give them more uniqueness and variety in playstyle
Evan Ward
>rook counter replaced with Stone Shield
Yes please, I miss that glorious shield.
Angel Hernandez
I've been wondering, is there a reason why they decided to avoid continuous área damage suck as the old glutton E?
Those are not Hard to use and are fun too.
Noah Cox
honestly just want to queue dodge every game i get a ruh kaan against a healer and a good melee dps
really glad you're allowed to get queued without one while i get no cc worthless fucks every game
Joseph Richardson
there are multiple moves that do that?
Aiden Myers
Let's say that matchmaking and samey characters get dealt with.
Make one change to the gameplay to improve it.
Kayden Sullivan
That are not ultimates? I can only think of the igniter's R.
Jacob Price
because when hit boxes are so large and when movement speed is so slow that you can only dodge with movement abilities, sustained aoe damage becomes OP
see: jumong r
also it probably doesn't fall into the design philosophy of making every char the same